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The premise of this paper is that Adam Smith was first a teacher and second an economist and writer. Set this, it aims to show that one of the causes of the remarkable success of The Wealth of Nations was the didactic rhetoric that the author put into practice in communicating his thoughts. It focuses on the well-known example of the manufacture of pins, previously not studied from this perspective, because of its important function as a proem to the work, place in which it is a priority to adapt to the imagination of students, listeners and readers, capturing their sympathy so that they wish to continue learning, listening and reading. After identifying the previous formulations of the example by other authors, it analyses the different versions provided by Smith, identifying in them three relevant levels from the point of view of education: visual, emotional and historical. In addition, it gives relevance to the didactic context of Scotland of his time and to the interconnection of Smith's different cultural interests, especially his connections with rhetoric. Its conclusion is that Smith based his didactic rhetoric on perspicuity and sympathy, building a teaching discourse, first, and textual, later, that created an immersive visual environment in which students, listeners and readers felt intuitively protagonists inside the conceptual world exposed (that of the new economic science) and, with this, agents of their own formative process, which has an undeniable topicality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article analyses the vulnerability conditions of a fishing community facing the extreme meteorological phenomena aggravated by climate change. The methodology is qualitative, supported by geographic methods, based on the case study of the "La Barra afro-descendant community", located in the Colombian Pacific Coast, in the mouth of San Juan River. As there is limited access to the community due to its geographical conditions, besides the biosecurity requirements due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a documentary analysis, as well as multi-temporal maps based on satellite images, show the spatial changes on the coastline of La Barra, during the years 2001, 2011 and 2019. In addition to the above, interviews with academic experts and community residents are conducted. The term "vulnerability" is understood from the school of thought of climate change science and adaptation research. It is concluded that the vulnerability not only depends on climatic stimuli but also on the racialized and marginalized conditions of Afro populations located in isolated rural territories. In that way, the social and political nature of the meteorological phenomena could transform them in catastrophic events for vulnerable populations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This work serves as a critique to J.S. Mill's observations presented in "On Liberty". In our opinion, Mill failed in not thinking that his own ideas would fall victim to the evils he denounced, being that they became part of a culture that, in considering itself morally superior, didn't make place for a genuine pluralism, resisting change at all costs. Borrowing from philosopher Byung Chul- Han's ideas, we can relate this situation to the collapse of the individual thanks to a fear to "otherness". In the age of sacrifice of liberty for security, we can only expect a reaction to an evergrowing state of vigilance, and we cannot expect it from the world's leading nations. Building on this observations, we conclude that the last chance will be given on the periphery: where the conditions of pluralism and, most importantly, a lack of state capacity to asphyxiate privacy, are a given. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper constitutes a reflection about the pioneer Systematic Desensitization (SD), which bases seem to have been assumed by more popular procedures. Although SD fell into oblivion; its foundations remain as part of new approaches such as the Relational Frame Theory or mindfulness and targets a wide range of disorders besides specific phobias. Theoretically speaking and in comparison, with other exposition techniques, SD contributes in a better way to the reduction of anxiety by: relaxation, calibration of the exposures and a longlasting learning of an alternative response within a varied stimulating context that favors generalization process. Moreover, SD is better accepted by patients and is a flexible procedure with consolidated bases. These serve as sufficient arguments to revalue this technique. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Wearing anti-vibration gloves is one of preventive measures recommended to reduce exposure to hand-arm vibration. But what do we know about the effectiveness of these anti-vibration gloves and about the workers' acceptance? One literature review has been carried out in Medline (PubMed) and EBSCOhost, for the period from 1970 to 2014. A field study with questionnaires and interviews was done involving 30 workers that were invited to wear two types of anti-vibration gloves, for a short period of time each. Twenty-three (23) questionnaires about comfort and drawbacks of wearing anti-vibration gloves were completed. Twelve (12) individual interviews were analysed. Both types of suggested gloves were considered uncomfortable and, according to several workers, they hindered the performance of the job. Furthermore, the literature review reveals that the effectiveness of the gloves to reduce vibrations is low. Reducing hand-arm vibration exposure by wearing anti-vibration gloves has not been demonstrated. For the workers, the major problems are related with a decreasing dexterity, a discomfort and a disturbance at performing their jobs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Preventec and the Geography school, both of the University of Costa Rica, joined efforts to make a comprehensive analysis of vulnerability to natural and anthropogenic hazards in the canton (county) Santo Domingo de Heredia. To do this, 27 indicators of vulnerability were evaluated in order todetermine the most vulnerable areas of the canton. The work was carried out because there are threats that have caused severe damage to human settlements in Santo Domingo but an estimate of vulnerableelements in this canton has never been done. This research aims to identify the most vulnerable zones and focus the efforts on them to reduce the susceptibility of the population to the impact of the hazards. To meet the goal, an index of vulnerability of value between 0 and 1, with 1 being the most value from vulnerability, was computed in every minimum geostatistics unit (UGM) of Santo Domingo. Then, the critical areas were plotted on a map. The results suggest the Santo Domingo is a canton of low vulnerability and that the critical areas are constrained to flooding zones where the human settlements have significant physical exposure and low economic resources. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper explores the idea of community through the proposals of some contemporary thinkers who have tried to rethink the concept of being in common assuming some of its paradoxes. For authors like Roberto Esposito, Jean-Luc Nancy and Giorgio Agamben, thinking "the community" implies reflecting on it from the paradoxes and contradictions it contains, both conceptually and in terms of everyday reality. The central paradox that sums such contradictions is stating that the community is feasible only to the extent that it is not. Close to Russell's paradox, such aporia allows us to recognize the difference between the community that takes care of its contradictions and inconsistencies, the community of the crisis, and the one that, conceived in absolute and unequivocal terms, is not responsible for their antinomies and contradictions, and leads to what we call the community crisis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we establish a relation between two Argentine entertainment programs. The first, a classic, pioneering television myth generator and the second a recent news program characterized by the involvement of celebrity guests to a turntable. The programs in question are Circular Saturdays and Saturday Bus. The route of the paper will attempt to draw a cross between two television products indicating not only the points of contact and formal and historical differences, but also the possibility of an analysis to review and propose a characterization of what significant limitation on the bodies. For reasons of space we will have a production Reading. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores the idea of community through the proposals of some contemporary thinkers who have tried to rethink the concept of being in common assuming some of its paradoxes. For authors like Roberto Esposito, Jean-Luc Nancy and Giorgio Agamben, thinking "the community" implies reflecting on it from the paradoxes and contradictions it contains, both conceptually and in terms of everyday reality. The central paradox that sums such contradictions is stating that the community is feasible only to the extent that it is not. Close to Russell's paradox, such aporia allows us to recognize the difference between the community that takes care of its contradictions and inconsistencies, the community of the crisis, and the one that, conceived in absolute and unequivocal terms, is not responsible for their antinomies and contradictions, and leads to what we call the community crisis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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We describe an experience developed with students at the "Isabel la Católica" Secondary School, placed in Guadahortuna (Granada). We have used common spaces such as corridors to teach them scientific knowledge. We have tried to contribute to our students' scientific learning in a different way: an exposition, with material developed by they own. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The general objectives were to determine isodose's curves within Hemodinamia's Laboratory, by means of the evaluation of the KERMA (Kinetic Energy Release in Matter) in air and to relate the zones examined with the distribution that the staff occupationally exposed (POE) during the realization of these procedures embraces . The specific objectives were to measure the rate of exposition with ionization chamber for the different utilized projections, estimating the rate of equivalent dose around mSv/h which the POE within the Laboratory in the several utilized points to make measurements and to identify the points with KERMA's bigger levels in air within the Laboratory is on view to. Measurements were accomplished according to projection and fantoma's thickness with a same ionization chamber Radcal of 1800 cc located in points circumscribed in advance within Hemodinamia's Laboratory. They manufactured graphics and maps with curves of distribution of dose superimposed to the architectonic diagram of Hemodinamia's Laboratory, delimiting in the maps the levels of distribution of dose once determined sectors were associated to. One point of position of the POE which the rate of exposition and his equivalent values in of dose was identified you presented the higher and dangerous levels for the projections that they simulated labor quotidian conditions within Hemodinamia's Laboratory of the Clinical Hospital of the University of Chile and thicknesses of fantoma utilized in this work and. We can affirm in conclusion that isodose's curves modify according to the incidence of the bundle of X-Rays or according to the projections utilized during the procedures angiographic themselves, this gets rid of the simple observation of graphics and maps with the curves of distribution of dose. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Este trabajo propone una reflexión acerca de una de las formas que adquiere la representación de las artesanías en los museos en la actualidad. En principio, reseñamos brevemente cómo a principios del siglo XX, en el proceso de constitución de las artesanías como patrimonio cultural, se las vinculó con un pasado prehispánico y señalamos los cambios que dicha vinculación atravesó en distintos momentos históricos conjuntamente con el desarrollo de una concepción de la producción artesanal como un campo complejo. Luego nos introducimos en la problemática museal y reseñamos cómo dicha renovación en la conceptualización del campo artesanal se expresó en los modos de exposición museográficos. Posteriormente tomamos en consideración el concepto de actuación (performance) y nos centramos en el estudio de un caso particular (la realización de una Feria artesanal indigena llevada a cabo en un museo de Buenos Aires). A partir del análisis de manifestaciones discursivas escritas (folletos explicativos) y orales (fragmentos de entrevistas semi-estructuradas realizadas en el transcurso de la Feria), exponemos algunas posibilidades de resignificación de las tempranas formulaciones acerca de la relación artesanía-cultura indígena surjidas en dicho evento. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]